Drais of Germany invented a improved model called a "draisienne‚ which added a steering bar connected to the front wheel. Twenty years later‚ a Scottish blacksmith‚ Kirkpatrick Macmillan‚ added foot pedals to the Draisienne. In the 1870’s came a bike called a penny- Farthing. It consisted of a huge front wheel‚ 1.5 meters tall‚ and a very small back wheel. The advantage of this model was that it could travel a greater distance with a single turn of the pedals. But because it the wheels
Premium Automobile Internal combustion engine Industrial Revolution
Compare and Contrast Essay Cars and Bikes Bikes and cars are two of the many ways of transportation. Both can be used to drive people to places they want to go to without walking. Each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages. And each has its own type and standard of people as well as its different uses and forms. Not all the people could afford buying a car. A car could be very expensive to some people
Premium Bicycle Automobile Cycling
Eco bike Global warming is a hot topic right now. With the increasing temperature of the earth‚ many environments are changing. When this happens‚ the planet is at risk. In order to counteract the effects of this global phenomenon‚ though‚ many people are looking to & go green and create more eco-friendly approaches to their everyday lives. in todays world people are more concerned about the health. With rising fuel cost‚ fitness problem with middle aged people‚ global warming‚ people are moving
Premium Automobile Ecology Bicycle
Dirt Road Drifting The fresh air whizzed through our hair as we drifted around the loose‚ gravely corner into the neighbor’s drive way where we parked the four-wheeler alongside the long line of cars. The five of us jumped off the dusty wheeler and began to wander around. “Well this is fun!” Luke exclaimed sarcastically. It didn’t take us long to figure that the neighborhood party wasn’t going to be anything spectacular. The parents all sat around the fire drinking and chatting with one another
Premium Road The Road
A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary
Premium Natural disaster 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake Volcano
MY FIRST BICYCLE I like riding a bicycle very much. Sometimes I feel scared when a big truck pass by me very fast. But I keep an eye on the movement of cars and enjoy cycling. Riding a bike is one of my hobbies. If I had given up learning how to ride it because of fear‚ could I still enjoy cycling now? I can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I must have been ten or eleven years old when I rode my first bicycle‚ and the day I learned to ride it is very vivid
Premium Debut albums Bicycle Psychology
How I injured myself riding a bike Philip Martin Westwood College How I injured myself riding a bike What this memory is about is when I went to visit my grandma and took and old and rusted bike to a friend house; against my better judgment and was injured when the bike finally broke down. Now before I begin this tale remember this happened several years ago and I was maybe 11 years old. I was visiting my grandmother’s house and at the time there wasn’t anyone around to play with. With no
Premium Coming out Bicycle Grandparent
from traditional‚ mostly leisure-oriented bicycle rental services as they provide fast and easy access; use the bicycle as urban transport have diversified in organisational layout‚ the business models and the applied technology towards “smart bikes” (rental process via smart card or mobile phone). A big part of this success story is mode within a few months? due to the introduction of the Public Bicycle scheme vélo’v. Each of the 2‚000 bicycles available The transferability of
Premium Cycling Sustainable transport City
Financial Analysis JET2 Task 3 A1. Capital Structure Recommendation A sound capital structure needs to be in place for Competition Bikes to maximize its shareholder return and expand. A good capital structure would ensure adequate funding and future business stability. However‚ adequate funding involves capital financing which also has its own risks. If bonds are issued‚ the company would have to pay interest on them but if sales projections aren’t met‚ this could have a huge negative impact
Premium Net present value Internal rate of return Investment
man when I had to leave. I tried to find a bicycle that’ll replace the one I had‚ but somehow‚ I just don’t like any of them. I just want my old bike back! And today‚ we landed on Taiwan. It’s the first time I came back to Taiwan and the first thing I thought at that time was to look for the bike. There’s this old house that bothered me. I knew the bike was in there but don’t know why. It was just one of those inexplicable in life you know the things. You know they are there and you know everything
Premium Bicycle Time Light